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56
Citations
11009
World Ranking
737
National Ranking
364

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 1982 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ron Donagi is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on several specialized areas.

The main fields of study for Donagi include:

  • Mathematics
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these, the subfields of study concentrate on:

  • Geometry and Topology
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Algebra and Number Theory

The topics most frequently addressed in their work cover:

  • Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
  • Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Advanced Algebra and Geometry
  • Algebraic structures and combinatorial models
  • Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
  • Geometry and complex manifolds
  • Nonlinear Waves and Solitons

Donagi has a substantial record of published papers. A selection of recent publications includes:

  • Machine learning and algebraic approaches towards complete matter spectra in 4d F-theory (2023), published in OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Cornering relative symmetry theories (2025), published in Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Brill-Noether-general limit root bundles: absence of vector-like exotics in F-theory Standard Models (2022), published in Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Parabolic Hecke eigensheaves (2022), published in Astérisque
  • On the global moduli of Calabi-Yau threefolds (2022), published in Asian Journal of Mathematics

Donagi frequently collaborates with other researchers, with the most common coauthors being:

  • Mirjam Cvetič
  • Jacques Distler
  • Martin Bies
  • Nadia Ott
  • Aswin Balasubramanian

The research output is predominantly published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Recognitions earned by Ron Donagi include:

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1982)

Best Publications

  • Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and integrable systems

    Ron Donagi;Edward Witten

  • Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Systems And Integrable Systems

    Ron Donagi;Edward Witten

  • Model building with $F$-theory

    Ron Donagi;Martijn Wijnholt

  • Breaking GUT groups in $F$-theory

    Ron Donagi;Martijn Wijnholt

  • An SU(5) heterotic standard model

    Vincent Bouchard;Ron Donagi

  • Spectral covers, algebraically completely integrable, hamiltonian systems, and moduli of bundles

    Ron Donagi;Eyal Markman

  • Higgs Bundles and UV Completion in F-Theory

    Ron Donagi;Martijn Wijnholt

  • Holomorphic vector bundles and non-perturbative vacua in M-theory

    Ron Donagi;André Lukas;Burt A. Ovrut;Daniel Waldram

  • Principal bundles on elliptic fibrations

    Ron Y. Donagi

  • Langlands duality for Hitchin systems

    Ron Donagi;Tony Pantev

  • Standard-model bundles

    Ron Donagi;Burt A. Ovrut;Dan Waldram;Tony Pantev

  • Standard Models from Heterotic M-theory

    Ron Donagi;Burt A. Ovrut;Tony Pantev;Daniel Waldram

  • SUPERMODULI SPACE IS NOT PROJECTED

    Ron Donagi;Edward Witten

  • Moduli in N = 1 heterotic/F-theory duality

    Gottfried Curio;Ron Y. Donagi

  • The structure of the prym map

    Ron Donagi;Roy Campbell Smith

  • The Gerbe Of Higgs Bundles

    R.Y. Donagi;D. Gaitsgory

  • Standard-Model Bundles on Non-Simply Connected Calabi{Yau Threefolds

    Ron Donagi;Burt A. Ovrut;Tony Pantev;Daniel Waldram;Daniel Waldram

  • F-theory vacua with Z3 gauge symmetry

    Mirjam Cvetič;Ron Donagi;Denis Klevers;Hernan Piragua

  • Spectral involutions on rational elliptic surfaces

    Ron Donagi;Burt A. Ovrut;Dan Waldram;Tony Pantev

  • The heterotic string, the tangent bundle and derived categories

    Paul S. Aspinwall;Ron Y. Donagi

Frequent Co-Authors

Burt A. Ovrut
Burt A. Ovrut University of Pennsylvania
Eric Sharpe
Eric Sharpe Virginia Tech
Sheldon Katz
Sheldon Katz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mirjam Cvetič
Mirjam Cvetič University of Pennsylvania
Edward Witten
Edward Witten Institute for Advanced Study
David R. Morrison
David R. Morrison University of California, Santa Barbara
Yang-Hui He
Yang-Hui He London Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Dennis Gaitsgory
Dennis Gaitsgory Harvard University
Albrecht Klemm
Albrecht Klemm University of Bonn
Mauro Francaviglia
Mauro Francaviglia University of Turin

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